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Activists Block Logging Roads Where Ancient Redwoods are Crashing Down
Contacts:
Karen Pickett, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (510) 548-3113 or
David at Rainforest Action Network (415) 398-4404, x310...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 10:53am PST
captured on digital video: Pacific Lumber cutting down old growth redwoods in Nanning Creek Grove, and the sound of ancient trees crashing to the ground (November 12, 2005)...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 3:18am PST
We Sing to Water: 1 PM November 26, 2005 San Francisco, Clarion Alley
Come to a Clarion Alley mural dedication about the Winnemem Wintu tribe and their fight against cultural genocide. The tribe lost their homeland under Shasta Dam in 1945, and now California is trying to flood the last Winnemem sacred sites on the McCloud River.Come and learn about the Winnemem campaign against the state and California agribusiness. Caleen Sisk-Franco, tribal leader and War Dancers from the Winnemem Wintu ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 11:57pm PST
Bonanza Logging Plan on Pacific Lumber's land Threatens Marbled Murrelet...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 1:50pm PST
Adding to the toxic mix of agricultural pesticides and herbicides, now InEnTec wants to burn medical waste in the northern regions of the Sacramento Valley. The basin effect of the northern valley surrounded by mountains traps air pollution, covering the region in a toxic chemical smog (dioxin) for days.....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 10:33am PST
Last Largest Unprotected Ancient Redwood Forest In the World Now Being Logged
For more information:
Susan Moloney, Campaign for Old Growth (707) 932-0260 (cell)
Lindsey Holm, Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) (707) 476-8340...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 11:06am PST
Largest, Unprotected Ancient Redwood Grove on Pacific Lumber land
Now BEING LOGGED...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 10:53am PST
Regarding the nightmare, who is: Congressman Richard Pombo and his personal agenda of environmental destruction and animal welfare/protection abolishment....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 1:59pm PST
Sonoma County went to the polls last night to vote on Measure M, a
proposed ten-year moratorium on GE-organisms. The initiative failed by a
56% to 44% margin. The GE-Free Sonoma press release is pasted below....
Posted: Wed, Nov 9, 2005 5:06pm PST
California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is set to vote on the creation of the largest solar program in the United States....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:18am PST
Author and filmmaker Heather Rogers will talk about her new book "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage", a political history of rubbish in the United States. Joining her will be organizer and activist Monica Wilson from the grassroots group Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, who will discuss recent Bay Area struggles against new garbage incinerators and the importance of addressing waste disposal issues in the context of race and class....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:04am PST
This is an effort to save the most biologically diverse body of water on Earth....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 8:05pm PST
What happened on the different branches of the San Francisco halloween critical mass of 10/29/05? There were several thousand people in costumes, for a traditionally big ride. After the broadway tunnel, the group of people around me went to the mousetrap. I heard others went towards the Castro. If you have photos, upload them.
The ride was a lot of fun with several elaborate art bikes, and a very long route, and police were effective at halting side streets for a couple minutes as the para...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 9:34am PDT
Please help save the SF Bay Area Critical Mass/Reclaim The Streets Bike Soundsystem by donating to cover the costs of fighting the two remaining court cases....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 4:08am PDT
This Tuesday, a local activist was ordered to surrender to authorities November 8th for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in San Francisco currently investigating animal rights activists in the Bay Area (http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1778325.php). Other Bay Area activists face the same potential fate (http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=3326&category_id=58 & http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=3264&category_id=58).
Wednesday, a Senat...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 11:01pm PDT
I know that Critical Mass has no leaders and that the direction of the ride is up to everyone. It was great showing support for striking hotel workers last year, and we ought to ride to the California Pacific Medical Center at Webster and Clay to show our support with the nurses....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:45pm PDT
Forest Canopy Activism Giant Redwoods Treesit, Spooner welcomes peaceful tree-friendly people to the upper world of the marbled murrelet....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 4:11pm PDT
This is to raise awareness for our new Website and promote a Worldwide Petition to Save the Bay of La Paz and Gulf of California, the most biologically diverese body of water on earth....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 4:36pm PDT
Interview with David Schooley. This interview begins with specific environmental projects revolving around the entire mountain, and after a musical interlude we discuss the Terrabay Project near South San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Oct 23, 2005 8:23pm PDT

